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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by kmonsen on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:27PM (#12459037)
You choose to use the obvious case, but it would be just as true for the other one:

Yes, if you can sell a night's stay for the same price to a woman as you can to a man, it would seem wisest to board the woman at every opportunity.

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by gg5ever on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:05PM (#12465167)
Yes - it's legal to discriminate by sex. If you go out looking for apartments in a major city, you will see many "women-only" options, probably for some of the reasons you listed. However, I don't think the arguments for sexual prejudice apply to racial prejudice.
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